Mr. Brooks is an expert on Asset Performance Management. Previously, he was President and COO at Mtelligence (Mtell). He has 25+ years at Exxon, Chevron, and start-ups in process operations, planning and scheduling, control, and industrial IT systems. At Chevron Technology Ventures, he invested in early-stage technology and held board positions. He has led IT technology developments in process historians, supervisory control, batch, manufacturing intelligence, dashboards, and user interfaces. Mike invented a manufacturing operations solution and founded INDX software to commercialize it. He was the Director of Products and Technology at Wonderware. At the Open O&M initiative, Mike was deeply involved in the integration and inter-operability that led open standards requirements.